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  1. Neil Gaiman _ M Is for Magic

    M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...
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  2. Arthur Schopenhauer _ Counsels and Maxims (The

    Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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  3. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash.
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  4. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras {I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...} and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.
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  5. Seamus Heaney

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  6. Virginia Woolf _ The Second Common Reader

    To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions-there we have none.
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  7. Virginia Woolf _ Night and Day

    She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one.
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  8. Virginia Woolf _ The Waves

    I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.
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  9. George Eliot _ The Lifted Veil

    We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
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  10. George Eliot _ The Mill on the Floss

    I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
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  11. Gustave Flaubert _ November

    I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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  12. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    She was still clutching the book.She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.
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